@epidiah i love the programming books from the home 8-bit era because they were largely about learning how to solve a problem on your own… not which $100 software package to use or how to set yourself up for a career in programming the end of the world, but like ‘here are a bunch of basic routines for doing x and y, slap ‘em all together and you can balance your checkbook’
they really treated the computer as a malleable box of nothing, waiting for you to find their purpose.
@epidiah I completed a novel draft last week and published the first chapter today, I'm super excited about this thing finally seeing the light of day! :D
I just started re-reading one of my go-to novels: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Lem.
This time, in addition to the fact that it scratches a very particular satiric dystopian itch, I'm thinking about it as inspiration for a Liminal_ hack.
@epidiah I'm hyped to have found the voice to finally write a game I hold on for too long.
Actually the voiceS. It will be a choral text, all diegetic. But the game exists in the fiction, therefore in fiction characters can spy on a game (the campaign I ran two years ago) and explain to each other how the game takes place.
@epidiah it is this kind of contemporary, conspiracy-full #TTRPG that were fashionable in the 90's, but with a modern take on it. Symbolism and aesthetics rather than tactics and metaplot.
It's funny to write the voice of these clever conspirators spying on my Discord server and running towards occult conclusions about who is behind this game.
@epidiah I'm currently kinda hyped about the bi-weekly lunchtime Ironsworn game I roped some colleagues into. I've always wanted to have an office RPG game, but could never generate interest. Finally, it clicked. I think more people got back into it or did it for the first time over the pandemic, so there was more interest.
This is the first time for all of them playing a non-trad game, though one of them is familiar with PbtA games from some actual plays that he's listened to.